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Adorable Frog Cards

Good Morning Crafty Peeps

I am a part of  the Handmade Happiness group on Facebook, hosted by the fabulous Courtney Kreeber. I'm sure many of you know her from fer You Tube channel. We are a group of 21, a smaller group in Handmade Happiness that are doing monthly blog hops with supplies we have had lying around forever. This moths theme is Critters and/or stencils.   Here is a link to the next blog in the hop CraftyannaStudio

I made 2 cards for this months blog hop using Rabbit Hole Designs mini release.  The stamp and stencil is no longer a set but you can still get them individually.  Can you believe I don't have many critter stamps. I will be using some in the coming months of our blog hops. This is the background I made for my first card. I used Salty Ocean and Lucky Clover Oxides that I watered down and painted on. I then took a stencil and added Gesso through that. It is faint but you can see it better in person. Next I took the Salty Ocean Distress spray and flicked big drops of that on.

I then took the adorable frog and heat embossed it on some watercolor paper. I water colored this frog in 3 different colors and stacked them together. I added the sentiment Heard you got a bug, that comes with this fun stamp. I used a stitched rectangle die from Pink Fresh Studios. 

I added that panel to  the front on my standard A2 sized card, which is 4.25 x 5.50. This card is a top folding card. I seem to prefer the top folding style card most of the time.

 

 

This is my second card using the stamp and stencil. On the stencil there is cattails, a fly, a dragonfly, a bee and the motion lines for the fly or bee. The lily pad and cattail behind the frog were cut from my Cricut. I used at different stitched rectangle die from Gina Marie Deigns.  She has some great dies and at amazing prices. I used the new Distress Oxide Ink in Speckled Egg for the sky portion and Peacock Feathers and Lucky Clover Distress Ink for the grassy area. I added the cattails with the stencil. The frog is popped up on foam tape on top of the lily pad.This fabulous hop idea came from Karen who is a part of our Handmade Happiness Group. She spent some long hours getting this all together for all of us to enjoy! You can find her at Misplaced Mojo

BIG CRAFTY HUGS LISA CMAY

COFFEE LOVERS HOP

COFFEE LOVERS SPRING/SUMMER  HOP

Welcome Coffee Lovers

Welcome to the Coffee Lovers  Spring/Summer Hop. Hope you enjoy all the wonderful inspiration you will find along the way. This hop is hosted by the Coffee Loving Card Makers

 

  This adorable pup image comes from the brand new release from the Not 2 Shabby Shop. I hope you will head on over and check out Jamie's fabulous shop.! #not2shabbyshop

 

The Details of the Card

I used the Pup in a Cup as my focal image for this card. I cut this adorable image out with my Brother Scan N Cut. She is colored up with Arteza colored pencils. 

The coffee sleeve is cut out again as a separate piece which has foam tape for dimension. I used a Hero Arts stencil called Mandala Swirl Stencil. The pink enamel dots are from Gina Marie Designs.

The bottom pink frame  is from Gina Marie Designs and the top white frame was cut from Cricut.

Big CRAFTY Hugs. Lisa